I write, these memoirs for my soul
I write, these memoirs for my woes
I fight, my demons and my foes
That’s why my eyes, impure from blood and gold
From Memoirs by Moglera Doe Boy
World-class review of ballet and dance.
Penn Live Arts presented Rennie Harris’s “Losing My Religion” last week as part of its America Unfinished Series, marking the country’s semiquincentennial. The finale to his three-year residency, it opens with earsplitting whistles, the kind you hear at an ICE protest. Its dark and mercurial essence is an emphatic and passionate statement fit for our times.
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While the world of ballet is considered a rarefied one, what happens when a dancer who trained at the prestigious Paris Opéra Ballet School abandons the art form—or rather integrates said terpsichorean skills—into a solo sans pointe shoes or ballet slippers, sporting, instead, sneakers? The answer can be found in Dimitri Chamblas’ stunning and thought-provoking work, “Ulysse Marion.”
PlusThere is something uncanny about the timing of the Paris Opera’s revival of Kenneth MacMillan’s “L’Histoire de Manon” at the Palais Garnier in October 2026, as turmoil unfolds in the streets of Paris.
PlusThe Nrityagram Dance Ensemble returned to the Joyce Theater this October with a generous evening of new and old works under the umbrella title “Khaṅkhaṇā—the sound of dancing feet.”
PlusI’ve always wondered what it was like to be in the audience of a Balanchine premiere, and on October 8th, when the New York City Ballet revived “Pithoprakta” for the first time in 57 years, I got the closest I will likely ever come to that experience.
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